Biography - Donna M Rosh

Donna Rosh received her BA, MA and PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh. Her dissertation research was conducted in the Navajo Nation, where she lived and taught from 1982 – 1986 at the College of Ganado and then again from 2006 – 2008 as an adjunct at Dine’ College. Both of these institutions are tribally controlled colleges.
She taught at Minnesota State University Moorhead from 1986 – 2005 and at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania from 2008 – 2010.

Her teaching and research interests include: Culture change theory, ethnic identity, educational anthropology, anthropology of religion, Native peoples North America. She conducted fieldwork among the Navajo, Dakota, Yakima and Ojibwe as well as in Poland.

She has two sons, who accompanied her during her initial fieldwork in the Navajo Nation and now has two granddaughters. She currently lives in the Pittsburgh area, but gets back to the Southwest whenever possible.

For fun, she travels, hikes, reads and gardens.